Volume 4

Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61.

  • British Museum (Natural History) Department of Botany
Date:
1896-1901
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following perhaps belongs here :— Pungo Andongo.—A patently branched, bushy tree, 10 ft. high, with trifoliolate leaves and violet-coloured flowers ; fruit obovoid, 1£ in. long, with perfected seeds. At Candamba by the river Cuanza * fr. March 1857. Coll. Carp. 847. 3. V. angolensis Giirke, l.c. Huilla.—At Mumpulla, fl. Oct. 1859; fr. Feb. 1860 No 5758 Flowers violet in colour. In the Empalanca thickets, sporadic • fl Jan. 1860. No. 5757. ’ ' 4. V. Welwitschii Giirke, l.c., p. 166. Golungo Alto.—An elegant, densely leafy tree, 12 to 25 ft high or in the primitive forest probably taller ; leaves evergreen • flower violet m colour; drupes (not quite ripe) almost globose, in shape and size like those of a Queen Claude plum, juicy, at first greenish yellow afterwards dusky purple. In secondary woods close to the declivities °fi iu-riTuri 0KcDg°’ at tlle foot of the Queta mountains ; fl. June 1855 and March 1856 ; young fr. Aug. 1855. No. 5644 This is perhaps the plant referred to by Welwitscb, Apontam. p 585 n 15 as a scarcely described species of Vitex or allied genus, occurring widpfvG° Un|° Alt° pri“ltlv® forests, and being a beautiful tree with floS PTi Cr°WDjPal“ately 5‘ t0 7-foli«late leaves, violet-coloured floweis, and large edible fruit prettily purple in the livino- state and greedily searched for by the negroes and wild birds. ° d 5. V. euspidata Hiern, sp.n. A tall tree, in old age leafy only at the top; timber excellent; ranches spreading, minutely squamulose, smooth; branchlets opposite, softly tomentellous, patent, tawny-shaggy at the tips • iTtioTesTf08?-’ sfreadl“g. digifately 3- to 5-foliolate; common petioles 2 to 4 m. long, slender, more or less tomentellous ; central «bnflff °b0!atf’1Tltc!ly cl,sPldate at apex, wedgeshaped at the ' dtly petiolulate base, thinly coriaceous, deep green rather glossy and more or less furnished with scattered minfite tubercles or scales above subferrugmous and softly tomentellous especially along the midrib and spreading lateral veins beneat?Penti^ to j'J m- ]°ug by 1 to 1J in. broad ; the lateral leaflets smaller - exceedt^The fX1 kry’ lax’ divaricately branched, equalling or exceeding the leaves; common peduncle 3 to 4\ in lone rim'd ^ sssSi The foliage m shape somewhat resembles that of V. Welwitschii 6. V. Guerkeana. Paris,’(it )Tt7*(] M6) U’ P' 169' n°n A- Juss- in Ann. Mus, Golungo Alto._A tree, 25 to 35 ft. high , heed widely spreading.